History - Maritime History & Piracy
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Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest: Tragedies and Legacies of a Perilous CoastSUBMERGED STORIES FROM THE GRAVEYARD OF THE PACIFIC Over the past 350 years, an untold number of ships have met their end along the northern Oregon and southern Washington coasts. Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest investigates some of the most compelling historic shipwrecks--from the...
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Shipwrecks of the San Juans: A History of Maritime Disaster in the San Juan IslandsMariners have long dreaded the labyrinth of the San Juan Islands. Bounded by the howling straits of Georgia, Rosario, Haro, and Juan de Fuca, the islands have proved the resting place of many an unlucky ship. With the aid of period accounts and historical...
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Tampa's Gasparilla Pirate FestivalPirate history, costumes, and decorated boats and ships have been the center of the famed Gasparilla Pirate Festival for over a century. Since 1904, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla has staged an annual mock pirate invasion of Tampa, Florida, a tradition that has become...
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The Adriatic Affair: A Maritime Hit-And-Run Off the Coast of NantucketThe American sailing vessel Adriatic collided with the French steamship Le Lyonnais on November 2, 1856, off the coast of Nantucket in what can best be described as a maritime hit-and-run. Adriatic's captain, Jonathan Durham, rendered no aid and left the passenger steamship to...
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The Band That Played on: The Extraordinary Story of the 8 Musicians Who Went Down with the TitanicThe movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. They often tell the same story about the "unsinkable" Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. But never before has "that glorious band," the group of eight musicians who played on as...
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The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of LiteratureA fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and never abating the gluttony of their terrible maw.' Pliny the Elder This absorbing exploration...
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the OceansFrom the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world's oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization. From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, ("Magnificent . . . radiates scholarship and a sense of...
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The Endurance Photographs: A Definitive Visual Record of Shackleton's ExpeditionExperience Sir Ernest Shackleton's fascinating and harrowing journey as never before. This deluxe art book presents the first high-quality prints of all surviving photographs from the 1914 polar expedition, one of the most epic survival stories of all time. Crew photographer Frank Hurley not...
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldFor three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no ship represented the...
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The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of ShipwrecksAn immersive dive into the meaning and mystique of shipwrecks The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more...
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The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever ToldA first-ever compilation of the most courageous and stunning Coast Guard rescue stories. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States, and the Coast Guard's rescue personnel are second to none. In...
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The Last Days of the Schooner America: A Lost Icon at the Annapolis Warship FactoryThe history of the famous vessel, from her design, build, and early racing career, through her lesser-known Civil War service and the never-before-told story of her final days on the ground at Annapolis. The America's story is set against a vivid picture of the...
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The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet"It is said that truth is often stranger than fiction...and Major Bonnet's story is proof of that saying. Moss breathes life into the tale of one of history's most puzzling pirates. Exhaustively researched and lively as a salty sea breeze, this book succeeds in...
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The Penguin Book of PiratesReal-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates--both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond--compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself A Penguin Classic Spanning three...
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The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of PiracyThe incredible story of the "Robin Hood of the Seas," who absconded with millions during the Golden Age of Piracy and who harbored an even greater secret. Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and...
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The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd"[A] striking, thoroughly researched depiction of just how much persistence and inventiveness it took for a woman in Colonial America to retain security and dignity over the course of her life." --Christian Science Monitor Few know that Captain Kidd, one of the most notorious...
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The Pirates' Code: Laws and Life Aboard ShipFall captive to the code--the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life. Pirates have long captured our imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye patches, and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was...
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the WorldThe true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow ClicquotSummer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious....
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The Shipyard AgentAs an undercover investigator, Augusta Clawson was assigned to Portland's Swan Island Shipyard to join the ranks of female welders in World War II. Meanwhile, she surreptitiously sent reports back to Washington, DC, cataloging her daily observations and offering an unfiltered representation of the...
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The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors"A historian who has spent the last quarter-century exploring China's lakes, rivers, and seas, and plunging into the country's rich maritime history, Schwankert and his team solved what was an enduring mystery - the identity and fate of Titanic's six Chinese survivors." --James Cameron...
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